We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Elina Filice. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Elina below.

Alright, Elina thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to start by getting your thoughts on what you are seeing as some the biggest trends emerging in your industry.

A big trend we’re seeing in the music industry right now is artists wanting to stay independent. No longer are artists rushing into record deals, even management deals, or they the most coveted desire anymore.

I think this is fantastic for a few reasons.

Artists get to maintain creative control over their artistry. They can explore, create, and develop their brand without a label in their ear or shutting down their ideas. They can keep royalties to themselves instead of signing them away. Importantly, they develop their fan base and their artistry, which ultimately gives them more bargaining power when making deals with lables, publishers, live agents, and other parters down the road.

However, staying independent for longer also presents some problems.

Running a music business can be difficult, time consuming, and lonely. There are a million different moving parts and endless opportunity for confusion.

That’s where Drop Rocket comes in! Drop Rocket aims to enable artists to grow by empowering them with helpful tools, resources, and community.

Drop Rocket gives you a clear process to follow when releasing music, so you can spend less time remembering and more time executing your best release yet. You can collaborate with your team, and customise our industry-standard templates. We also offer lots of other helpful resources like contract templates and one-on-one coaching.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I’m Elina, I”m a singer-songwriter, project manager, and music marketer. I’ve been working in creative marketing and all areas of the music industry for the past few years. I’ve been developing a music release strategy over the years, and eventually decided to turn that release strategy into Drop Rocket.

Drop Rocket helps independent artists manage all of their releases at once in easy-to-use project management software. They can customize industry standard templates, plan a content strategy in the intuitive content planner, and collaborate with teammates. Drop Rocket is interactive, totally customizable, and allows you track your progress through every release. It provides a proven process to follow every time, so that every release gets better, growing an artist business and fan base.

Complex projects, like releasing music, need simple solutions, and Drop Rocket is that solution!

Artists at any point of their career can benefit from the structure and clarity that Drop Rocket provides. That includes new artists learning the ropes, established artists who want to streamline their release process and scale their business, as well as labels and managers balancing several releases at once. Dozens of artists are ditching the guesswork and stress of releasing and using Drop Rocket instead.

Drop Rocket is also a community of fellow artists who know the power of staying independent and want to help and support each other through resources and education. It was made for artists, by artists.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

Our mission is to empower independent artists with education, resources, and community to help them build sustainable creative businesses.

Our goal is to encourage artists to change their mindsets from ‘starving artist’ to ‘creative entrepreneur’.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://droprocket.app/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/drop_rocket
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DropRocketOfficial/
• Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/DropRocketOfficial/

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